Definitions for GIGgɪg

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

giggɪg(n.; v.)gigged, gig•ging.

  1. (n.)a light, two-wheeled one-horse carriage.

    Category: Transportation

  2. a light boat rowed with four, six, or eight long oars.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  3. something that whirls.

  4. (v.i.)to ride in a gig.

Origin of gig:

1200–50; ME gigge, gig flighty girl; akin to Dan gig top

giggɪg(n.; v.)gigged, gig•ging.

  1. (n.)a device, commonly four hooks secured back to back, for dragging through a school of fish to hook them through the body.

  2. a spearlike device with a long, thick handle, used for spearing fish and frogs.

  3. (v.t.)to catch or spear (a fish or frog) with a gig.

  4. (v.i.)to catch fish or frogs with a gig.

Origin of gig:

1715–25; shortened from fishgig, var. of fizgig a kind of harpoon

giggɪg(n.; v.)gigged, gig•ging.

  1. (n.)a military demerit.

  2. (v.t.)to give a gig to.

Origin of gig:

1940–45; orig. uncert.

gig*gɪg(n.; v.)gigged, gig•ging.

  1. (n.)a single professional engagement, usu. of short duration, as of jazz or rock musicians.

    Category: Music and Dance

  2. any job, esp. one of short or uncertain duration.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Music and Dance

  3. (v.i.)to work as a musician, esp. in a single engagement.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Music and Dance

* Slang..

Origin of gig:

1925–30; orig. uncert.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. gig(noun)

    long and light rowing boat; especially for racing

  2. spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance(noun)

    an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

  3. gig(noun)

    a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting

  4. gig(noun)

    tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain

  5. gig(noun)

    small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood

  6. gig(noun)

    a booking for musicians

    "they played a gig in New Jersey"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. gig(noun)ɪg

    a unit of computer memory equal to about a billion bytes

    I added 60 gig of memory.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gig(noun)

    a fiddle

  2. Gig(verb)

    to engender

  3. Gig(noun)

    a kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig

  4. Gig(verb)

    to fish with a gig

  5. Gig(noun)

    a playful or wanton girl; a giglot

  6. Gig(noun)

    a top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play

  7. Gig(noun)

    a light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise

  8. Gig(noun)

    a long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig

  9. Gig(noun)

    a rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. gig

    [SI] See quantifiers.


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